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Abstract Flower Bed
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As I mentoined in my second post of my Seascape thread in the landscape section, the abstract image I was referring to. Please C&C as honestly as you wish – I will add my own comments later.
– Thorsten.
It looks like that the shot was taken through some special glass.
The composition of colours doesn’t catch me.I just have the strangest feeling that this is actually a painting of some sort, rather than something produced from a photograph.
If it came from a photo then I like the effect, and the colours are nice. However, I think for the image to really ‘work’ then a pattern of some sort needs to be the subject. Thorsten, could this be an attempt to show us that we can’t distinguish between a physical filter and a digital filter? (As the effect could have come from either.)
All this one says to me is you like watermarks :-) Not sure I like the colours, let alone the effect in this one – nothing personal!
Yeah, doesn’t really do much for me with the big giant watermark in the center.
Really like this Thorsten. :) Colours are evenly dispersed and it works really well.
Super :)I like it too..
Is it photoshop or filter? I’m curious. I do find the watermark very distracting.Sorry about the watermark!!! It’s an older image of mine which I happened to have handy but with the original scan archived away somewhere and I was in too much of a hurry to post here to bother digging up the original.
In some ways it’s a pity I didn’t post this before my seascape image as I would have been very interested in the comments on this without the seascape one having influenced them.
I really posted this to try and prove a point – that you cannot, in effect, judge a book by it’s cover; or, alternatively, it’s the finished image that counts, not how you created it. I don’t expect everyone to like this image – there are days I look at it and I hate it; other days I look at it and I think it’s great.
So, how was it created then? Well, it certainly wasn’t a filter and the only photoshop used was to create the (now horrible) watermark! In fact, this is a scan from 35mm slide and the image itself was entirely created in camera. The image consists of 80 exposures made on the same frame, with small movements of the camera between each exposure! Of course, with the preponderence of digital, people are quick to jump to comclusion as to how a particular image was created!
The question then arises – is this a photograph or is it digital-art or some other form of illustration? Technically of course, it’s a photograph. While it would not have been possible to create this exact effect using photoshop or a digital camera (except the D200 which I believe has a multiple exposure facility) it would have been possible to create something quite similar to it in photoshop. Yet some people would dismiss that as digital-art whereas this particular image is a photograph. Does it really matter? And where exactly does a photograph end and digital art begin?
– Thorsten.
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